Quotes About Ideals

What are we fighting for? What are we killing for? What do you see when you look into the future?

Revolution is not a goal in itself.

A nation becomes what its young people read in their youth. Its ideals are fashioned then, its goals strongly determined.

I've never met anyone who has said, "My goal is to make America mediocre." That's a kind of hard-right conservative fallacy.

Ideal goals are a menace in themselves, as much in more modern philosophers as in Plato.

Vietnam was really an idealistic thing to stop the spread of communism, which, incidentally, it did. It was a pretty costly way to do it, but it achieved its goal.

To debate political objectives, views, and goals is the most American thing conceivable.

Islam cannot accept or agree to a situation which is half-Islam and half-Jahiliyya [separated from God].

No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires.

Let me say, at the risk of seeming ridiculous, that the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love

Sometimes people are in love with the idea of being in love instead of being in love with the person they are with.

Most people carry an ideal man and woman in their head, and when the practical relations of the men and women of every day are discussed with reference only to these impossible ideals, we need not marvel at any ridiculous conclusions.

All I knew that night was that I believed in something and couldn't express it, while your team believed in nothing but knew how to say it—in other men's words.

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

I may be afraid of dogs and butterflies, but I would throw myself on the pyre at any time for an idea. [...] But indiscriminate courage reveals a want of imagination and ultimately a form of imbecility.

People's minds across the world were filling with utopias that could never overlap.

The difficulty for democracy is, how to find and keep high ideals.

we would, as I say, be in deep kimshee."36 The limited reach of the Manhattan Declaration was an unwelcome reminder to conservatives that the Republican Party remained the only viable—and unreliable—political instrument for their ideas.

In the Randian cosmology the dollar replaced the crucifix. Christianity, she said, is "the symbol of the sacrifice of the ideal to the nonideal.

This is the only time for high ideals because those ideals are all that we have. We aren't just fighting for our physical survival, but for the survival of our civilization. We don't have the luxury of old-world pillars. We don't have a common heritage, we don't have a millennia of history. All we have are the dreams and promises that bind us together. All we have...is what we want to be.

A revolutionary career does not lead to banquets and honorary titles, interesting research and professorial wages. It leads to misery, disgrace, ingratitude, prison and a voyage into the unknown, illuminated by only an almost superhuman belief.

Man, you see, is not a person, but an ideal, a spook.

Man, your head is haunted; you have wheels in your head! You imagine great things, and depict to yourself a whole world of gods that has an existence for you, a spirit-realm to which you suppose yourself to be called, an ideal that beckons to you. You have a fixed idea!

Mit dem Ideal der absoluten Freiheit wird dasselbe Unwesen getrieben wie mit allem Absoluten.